The Park City Farmers Market will open two weeks early on Wednesday at the Silver King parking lot. Founder and organizer Volker Ritzinger says the reason for the early opening is to help non-food vendors that weren’t able to join the market last year due to COVID-19 concerns.
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Last year’s Park City Farmers Market opened two weeks late, so organizer and founder Volker Ritzinger found a way to balance things out: He plans to start the event two weeks early this year.
“Some of the non-food vendors the ones who sell clothing and jewelry that we didn’t accept last year weren’t able to make any money because of the pandemic,” Ritzinger said. “So, I told them that we will open early this year so they can get a jump on things.”
Park City has cleared the land where the municipal government wants to build an arts and culture district stretching inward from one of the corners of the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive. The Park City Planning Commission, with a new member, is expected to eventually consider an application to develop the district. Tanzi Propst/Park Record
The Park City Council recently confirmed the appointment of a telecommunications industry figure to the Park City Planning Commission and the reappointment of an attorney to the influential panel.
William Johnson joins the Planning Commission after living in Park City for nearly 30 years while Sarah Hall will serve another term. The terms expire in July of 2024.
Park City Mountain Resort has traditionally not charged for parking in the vast lots at the base area. A Provo developer pursuing a project atop the parking lots intends to introduce a paid-parking system in the garages that would be built to replace the existing spots. Park Record file photo
The Provo developer pursuing a major project at the Park City Mountain Resort base area intends to incorporate a paid-parking system as a key measure in the efforts to reduce the amount of traffic the new lodging and commercial spaces would generate, a concept that has largely been in the background in the discussions but one that could be addressed this week.
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With Parkites shifting their focus from skiing to summertime pursuits, the contract between Park City Mountain Resort and its ski patrollers quietly expired May 1, with the sides still unable to strike a multi-year deal nine months after sitting down at the bargaining table.
That’s an “unprecedented” length of time, according to the local union leader, one during which ski patrols in two popular destinations in Colorado and Montana have voted to begin their own unions.
PCMR spokesperson Jessica Miller said in a prepared statement that resort owner Vail Resorts continues to bargain in good faith with the Park City patrol union, and that there are negotiation sessions scheduled throughout this month.
After 3 days in the 200s, the number of new COVID-19 cases jumps to almost 500
The director of the Summit County Health Department is retiring in August.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Empty vials of the Pfizer COVID19 vaccine at the Woods Cross High School pop-up clinic by Nomi Health, April 27, 2021. County and regional health districts are setting up vaccination clinics in high schools, to get the COVID-19 vaccine to 16- and 17-year-olds. | Updated: 10:35 p.m.
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Even as the number of Utahns fully vaccinated against COVID-19 approaches a million, the number of new cases jumped to nearly 500 on Wednesday – and two more people died.